Homeopathy offers treatments for various aspects of obesity. Homeopathic medicines can help you lose weight by improving digestion, elimination, and metabolism. But the medicines need to be individually prescribed, based on your own unique pattern of symptoms. Constitutional treatment is most appropriate, but some of the following remedies might be useful. Dr. Deoshlok Sharma

A recent study performed at the prestigious MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston may help open the eyes of homeopathy's habitual nay-sayers. Ultra-dilute homeopathic preparations of two remedies, Carcinosin and Phytolacca, both showed cytotoxic effects (cell death -- desirable) on breast cancer cells -- effects similar to Taxol, a regular chemotherapuetic agent used to treat breast cancer. Frankel M et al, International Journal of Oncology, 2010; 36(2): 395-403

Very little is known about the range of diagnoses, course of treatment and long-term outcome in elderly patients who choose to receive homeopathic medical treatment. The aim of the study was to determine the spectrum of diagnoses and treatments, as well as to describe the course of illness over time among older patients who chose to receive homeopathic treatment. Michael Teut, Rainer Ludtke, Katharina Schnabel, Stefan Willich, Claudia Witt

Dr Sara Eames, President of the Faculty of Homeopathy, says it’s high time homeopathy was considered as a serious option for treating allergies, which often present in complicated cases. “Allergic eczema is often linked with other conditions such as asthma. Whilst the pharmaceutical industry has warned about the dangers of over-prescription of steroidal treatments4, homeopathy offers a wide choice of safe medicines and creams as well as different treatment models”. Allergy study

Homeopathic remedies are based on a holistic approach to health that addresses illness by stimulating the body’s own healing powers. Homeopathy is based on the principle of “like treats like” or the “Law of Similars”, which states that if an herb or some other natural substance is consumed in a large quantity and a specific set of symptoms occur, then that same ingredient in small amounts will stimulate the body to fight against those same symptoms. Dr Deoshlok Sharma.

The current vaccine against the seasonal influenza strain H1N1 is thought unlikely to provide protection. The director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases said that the United States’ cases were found to be made up of genetic elements from four different flu viruses—North American swine influenza, North American avian influenza, human influenza A virus subtype H1N1, and swine influenza virus typically found in Asia and Europe. Article suggests several homeopathic remedies which may be helpful in treatment of swine flu.

Positive effects of homeopathy are often attributed to the placebo effect by its critics. Recently Nuhn T, Lüdtke R & Geraedts M. compared the placebo effects in clinical trials in homeopathy with the same in conventional medicine trials1. They found that the placebo effect in homeopathy is not larger than in conventional medicine when comparing classical homeopathy to conventional medicine. Dr. Manish Bhatia.

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